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What is data science? /

We've all heard it: according to Hal Varian, statistics is the next sexy job. Five years ago, in What is Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly said that ""data is the next Intel Inside."" But what does that statement mean? Why do we suddenly care about statistics and about data? This r...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loukides, Michael Kosta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly Media, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
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Sumario:We've all heard it: according to Hal Varian, statistics is the next sexy job. Five years ago, in What is Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly said that ""data is the next Intel Inside."" But what does that statement mean? Why do we suddenly care about statistics and about data? This report examines the many sides of data science -- the technologies, the companies and the unique skill sets. The web is full of ""data-driven apps."" Almost any e-commerce application is a data-driven application. There's a database behind a web front end, and middleware that talks to a number of other databases and data services.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (13 pages) : illustrations